To ensure the high quality of the Topconf conference program in the long term, all presentations will be tested scientifically and thematically. The evaluation is done by our independent conference program committee with members from various ICT companies.

Members of the Program Committee for Topconf Tallinn 2015 are:

• Sofia Trummal

  In the middle of the challenge there is always an opportunity
  Development Manager
  Swedbank AS

  Sofia works as Development manager at Swedbank. She joined the Bank back in 2004 and has been working since in various roles for the company. Her responsibility includes to be in charge for project portfolio delivery within the area, fulfilling department targets, full staff responsibility, managing team of 24 specialists, maintaining relationship with customers and cooperation with other IT areas.
• Joseph Carson

  Stops bad things from happening and protecting the world
  Product and Marketing
  Thycotic

  Joseph has more than 20 years’ experience in customer service, information technology, enterprise technical support, infrastructure and enterprise management solutions and product management. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO). A very hands on product manager who likes to see the product in the eyes of the user, understand how the products helps the user do their job, focus on the high level business problems and solving them. Joseph serves as Product and Marketing at Thycotic and COO Cyber Security at ESC Global Security, previously Joseph held Senior roles where he spent more than 10 years at Symantec and HP in ASIA.
• Helin Toom

  From idea to implementation!
  Development Manager
  Telia Estonia

  Helin is working as a development manager in one of the leading telecom compnies in Estonia, Telia. She has been working for Telia (formerly Elion) since 2006 and has had various roles in the company. As a development manager she is responsible for leading product development projects and managing the scope of the development of a new product.
• Priit Liivak

  Optimizing and automating the world through awesome software
  Head of Engineering
  Nortal

  Most of his career Priit has been in software developer role in various sized projects and teams. Most recent years he is setting the Java development compass for Nortal, helping teams to build seamless society. Always searching for innovative ideas and new technologies to research. He is also frequent guest lecturer in University of Tartu.
• Aivars Kalvāns

  a machine for turning coffee into code
  Lead Software Architect
  SIA Tieto Latvia

  Aivars Kalvans holds the position of Lead Software Architect at Tieto Latvia and is working on Card Suite payment card system. During his more than 12-year career Aivars has been involved in a number of projects related to credit card issuing, acquiring and utility payments through mobile phones, ATMs and POS-terminals. He enjoys solving both design and technical problems and likes to work on personal and Open Source projects using C++ and Python in his free time.
• Raimonds Simanovskis

  Founder of eazyBI
  Founder
  EazyOne SIA

  Raimonds Simanovskis is a software developer with a strong "enterprise software development" history and Oracle technologies background but during recent years he has been a passionate Ruby and JavaScript developer. He is a regular open source contributor and has created an Oracle database adapter for Ruby on Rails, a PL/SQL unit testing library with Ruby, and a JRuby library for Mondrian OLAP engine. Raimonds is also an active participant in Latvian Agile software development and Open Data communities. He is a regular speaker in Latvian and international Ruby, Oracle and Agile conferences. Raimonds is the founder and the core developer of the business intelligence web application eazyBI (https://eazybi.com).
• Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski

  Plumbing your JVM
  Master Developer
  Plumbr

  Co-founder of Plumbr, the Java Performance Monitoring solution, where he now contributes as core developer. Besides his daily technical tasks he is an active blogger, JavaOne RockStar and frequent conference speaker (Devoxx, JavaOne SF/Russia, GeeCon, 33rd Degree, TopConf, JavaDay, GeekOut, Joker, Jazoon, JPoint etc). Prior to founding Plumbr, Nikita was a Java EE developer and performance consultant in the Baltics, and has worked with tens of different Java EE applications over the years. In the last four years he specialized in troubleshooting and performance optimization.
• Anett Linno

  EPMA
  Project Manager
  EPMA

  Anett Linno is helping to organize to Project Management track with Helin Toom.
• Matti Jagula

  Juggling technologies
  Senior Developer
  GrabCAD

  Matti is a programming language geek always on the lookout for the most suitable paradigm for the current problem at hand. He has more than a decade of experience in the software business working as a consultant mainly in the telecommunications and public finance sectors. Currently he enjoys the madness of the startup world, helping to improve the life of all mechanical engineers. In his spare time he hacks Clojure and struggles with juggling.